The skill fell out of favor in schools, but states including Iowa are bringing it back and could see benefits, writes Shawn ...

As it stands, just 24 states require that cursive is taught in the classroom. But cursive handwriting is making a comeback of sorts for K-8 students in the U.S. Several states in recent years have ...

In fact, the standards only briefly mention print handwriting, a writing style in which the individual letters of a word are unconnected, as a skill to be taught in early elementary grades.

That may sound like a ringing endorsement for cursive handwriting, but when asked if cursive writing is better for a child's development than printing, Bastian makes it clear: She doesn't know.

Text messaging has arguably contributed to handwriting’s increasing homogeneity, but while print is opaque, handwriting is sincere: word processors can’t reveal corrections, doodles in the ...

Since teachers already have jam-packed schedules, if typing is introduced at an earlier age, couldn’t the focus on keyboard lessons diminish the role of handwriting overall? After all, the ...